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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by Shorel »

shevy-java wrote: post #177
askonomm wrote: post #146

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To me this correlates more to them being bought by Microsoft, a company known for being seemingly incapable of creating quality software to the point that it's not even funny anymore, and also known for sloppifying all the products they touch.

It's true, Microsoft made github worse, but the more recent issues seem to have to do a lot more with Microsoft selling its soul to AI. Microsoft really appears to have gotten dumber as they became dependent on AI. Most recent example: they used to promote Win11 and 32GB RAM. Now they are down to 8GB silently ... this is quite hilarious. There are now so many side effects that you see degradation in so many other are…

The 32GB issue is more about one internal factor: the wasteful reliance on Electron and other JS runtimes for UI, and two external factors: the very high price of RAM, and the increasing adoption of Linux.

So they will make Windows run on 8GB because people can't purchase cheap RAM anymore, and they want to stop people migrating to Linux.

This is not directly caused by AI slop, only indirectly through RAM prices.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by acuteaura »

microgpt wrote: post #375
acuteaura wrote: post #362

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GitHub Actions was always a mess. Because it is a Microsoft product. If you want to have a horrible time, try reading some of the runner code. It's early 2010s-style Windows-First, MSFT C# crud that has trouble not racing several threads to inconclusive status codes.

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I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, because it has all the signals of a joke, but it might be closer to true than I'd like to admit.

At my work, the average quality has gone up with "blindly trusting Opus". The failure modes are horrendous and the code is verbose as shit, but it still works better. Most "engineers" aren't very good at writing code.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by gitgud »

yashap wrote: post #66
alamsterdam wrote: post #64

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Mon and Dad (MS) are (generally) pretty solid with uptime. What is happening at GH? Rate of change trying to keep up with new challengers? Over-reliance on AI? Engineers trying to debug slop?

Yeah who knows, would be interesting to hear an inside take if any readers here are also GH devs! They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet. A glorious one nine of reliability.

> They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet.

I don’t love GitHub, but that number is a little misleading… That’s the intersection uptime of all GitHub services, most of which I (and most users) do not care about; code spaces, copilot, packages etc…

When you take out those uptimes, it becomes a lot higher. I’ll admit there seems to be a lot more incidents than usual though…

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by dreamcompiler »

HeWhoLurksLate wrote: post #340
dreamcompiler wrote: post #301

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Microsoft is the General Motors of software.

at present I'd almost put them at Stellantis levels of bad

Good point. I'm amazed that people are out there buying new Jeeps and Ram trucks. But I'm equally amazed people are out there buying 365 too.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by 927373912092 »

rochak wrote: post #80
sharts wrote: post #71

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They are known are engineers pushing features that bloated product management folks keep pushing so they can justify their jobs on LinkedIn. I'm not sure why this particular industry is so abysmal at making things even semi-reliable after decades of research, educated workforces, and loads of cash.

Corporate greed and late stage capitalism. Welcome to the future. We know you’ll love it.

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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by siwatanejo »

Syntaf wrote: post #211
canadiantim wrote: post #208

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What are the alternatives?

My company is migrating repositories over to a self-hosted forgejo instance, currently very jealous of the engineers working on those migrated repos.

Beware, CodeBerg (ForgeJo creators) has forbidden AI & crypto: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency...

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by siwatanejo »

tcfhgj wrote: post #274
canadiantim wrote: post #208

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What are the alternatives?

I migrated to gitlab, then to codeberg

Beware, CodeBerg (ForgeJo creators) has forbidden AI & crypto: https://hackaday.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-cryptocurrency...

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by vladvasiliu »

b112 wrote: post #376
hirako2000 wrote: post #334

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It pleases shareholders more to hear about exponential Cloud offering adoption than SLA availability for a developer platform.

Except, lots of devs use github, and see what using Azure means. Management is seeing that downtime too. So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly? Hotmail used to run on bsd, and they tried to move it to WinNT, back in the day. Same thing. Disaster. And it was held up as a reason to never use winnt for serious work, for years. Microsoft just always shoots themselves in the foot.

> So what insane person will ever touch Azure willingly?

The nobody-got-fired-for-choosing-Microsoft crowd. And they don’t look few and far between.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by steeleduncan »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #330
__initbrian__ wrote: post #266

All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing > Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2…

This was posted elsewhere in the discussion: https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/ Went downhill long before LLMs

The missing line on that graph is November 2019 when Github Actions were introduced. It would also show the point where things went wrong for uptime

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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Post by winwang »

__initbrian__ wrote: post #266

All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing > Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2…

Back of the envelope math, if anyone wants to correct my mental model: 2.1B (mincore)/week ~ 300M (mincore)/day. Assuming ~300k cores (~3k physical server CPUs, seems fine), that's 1k min/day. Seems about right, though obviously not uniformly distributed.

In any case, the number I'm focusing on here is the 300k cores part (x2 if you're counting in vcores). It does not seem like too much to ask for (significantly) more than that at github scale. It doesn't feel like a hardware issue, is what I'm getting at.

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